Sunday, May 31, 2009

Siblings arrested in land disputes because of injustices

Mrs. Leng Sok Heng and her siblings were manhandled by police during the violent eviction on 27th May, 2009.

Sources: Deum Ampil and Koh Santepheap newspapers
Reported in English by Khmerization

A long land disputes between two related-families in Phnom Penh have resulted in the violent arrests of the losing party who refused to abide by the court verdict because they say it's very unjust, reports Deum Ampil.

According to reports, the land disputes between Mrs. Leng Sophal, 35 and Pak Phally, 33 centred on a plot of lands in Reussey Keo district which saw Mrs. Leng Phally and her sibblings being violently evicted by about 50 policemen and court officials.


Mrs. Leng Sok Heng and her siblings were manhandled by police during the violent eviction on 27th May, 2009.

Mrs. Leng Sok Heng, 42 said that she and her sister Leng Sophal had moved to live in the plot of the disputed land measuring 16.60 m by 13.70 m since 1983. She said that in 1994, Pak Phally bought a plot of land behind her house. 5-6 years later he asked to buy her land for $3000-4000 but she refused to sell. Later he offered to pay $30,000 but she again refused the offer. At this point she claims that Pak Phally staked a claim to the ownership of the land by lodging a legal complaint against her and her sisters to take their land. According to the sisters, because Pak Phally is rich, he had bribed the judges with a large substantial sum of money and he won the case and the violent eviction followed suit, reports Koh Santepheap.

On the other hand, Pak Phally claimed that Mrs. Leng Sok Heng and her sisters had illegally lived on a block of land he legally owned since 1996. He took legal action against them in 1997 and won, but the sisters refused to vacate the lands until now that the court began to implement its verdict by evicting Mrs. Leng Sok Heng and her sisters.

According to media reports, the two sides of the legal battle are related to each other.

Mrs. Leng Sok Heng and her sisters are appealing to Prime Minister Hun Sen to intervene in their case because they said that corrupt judge and court officials have connived with Mr. Pak Phally to lake their land which they rightfully owned since 1983.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

She refused to sell 227 m2 for $30,000? What was she thinking? That's as good as it got. Next accusation is bribery, of course, what else. Very odd, the whole thing.

Anonymous said...

Cambodia is run by crminals.
Cambodia is a lawless country run by Khmer Rouge leaders.

Anonymous said...

This is the act of compensation from the 90-seat government to the 90-seat voters.

Anonymous said...

these official acts worst then crook.

crooks does bad thing too, but they tries to hide it.


these official does bad thing in the day light and have no shame or knowledge of wrong doing.

Anonymous said...

7:32 AM

STOP your rhetoric and cynicism.

Pi Anh: PPU

Anonymous said...

people can get unruly against the authority or peace officers. can't fight with the law enforcers like that. must use peaceful protest or something. violence do not beget violence. ordinary citizen must be educated to understand the law and not to fight against police. think about it, you can't win with the law enforcers, hello, wake you, people and let's don't get too rowdy! get your local representative to deal with the local authority. pictures like this don't tell the whole story. people can be very combative, that's why the police had to step in to take lawful action against unruly individuals. thank you.